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Welcome to the Anglican Parish of

The Anglican Parish of CHRIST CHURCH

ST LAURENCE

CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURE Railway Square, Sydney

Railway Square, Sydney Consecrated 1845

28 August 2016

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist & Children’s Ministry Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Mass in E (Smith) Hymns: 349, 439(i), 76, 275 10.30am Solemn High Mass Preacher: Fr Daniel Dries Setting: Service in F (Darke) Hymns: 76, 275, 439(i, desc. Jewkes) Motet: O sacrum convivium (Messiaen) Postlude: Bells (Langlais)

6.30pm Solemn Evensong & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Hymns: 150(i), 170(i), 424(desc. Caesar) Canticles: Service in G (Sumsion) Anthem: Like as the hart (Howells) Postlude: Voluntary in C (Boyce)

Left: The High Altar, viewed from the Rector’s stall

Morning PEWSHEET

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Mass Readings

Please use these readings in conjunction with the coloured service booklet.

Breakfast is served after the 7.30am Eucharist today. Refreshments are served after the 9.00am Sung Eucharist and the 10.30am Solemn High Mass, all in the Parish Hall. All are welcome. If you are a visitor please ask a sidesperson for directions.

Christ Church St Laurence is an inner city parish committed to the spread of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. As a congregation and as the Church we are committed to the support of the underprivileged, the persecuted and the socially marginalised. We are an Anglican church in the Anglican Catholic tradition.

THIS WEEK AT CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE MON 29 AUGUST Beheading of John the Baptist TUE 30 AUGUST

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Christian Meditation Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) WED 31 AUGUST 12.15pm Healing Eucharist John Bunyan, preacher and spiritual writer (d. 1688) Aidan of Lindisfarne, bishop and missionary (d. 651)

THU 1 September FRI 2 september

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm) 6.00pm Eucharist

SAT 3 september Gregory of Rome, bishop and teacher (d.604) Eliza Darling, pioneer social reformer in NSW (d.1868)

Daily Services (7.30am, 8.00am, 5.30pm)

Sun 4 september

Zeph 3:14-20; Ps 130, Rom 8:33-39; John 12.20-32

The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Mthr Elaine Farmer Setting: Mass in E (Smith) 10.30am Procession & Solemn High Mass Preacher: Mthr Elaine Farmer Setting: Missa de la batalla escoutez (Guerrero) Motet: Beati quorum via (Stanford) 6.30pm Solemn Evensong, Procession & Benediction Preacher: Fr John Sanderson Canticles: Westminster service (Howells) Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (Elgar)

Readings: The Revised Common Lectionary in NRSV (1997), Mowbray, London. Introit, Collect and Psalm: A Prayer Book for Australia (1995), Broughton Books, Sydney. Propers: The Roman Missal (1969 & 1983), E.J.Dwyer (Aust.). Reproduced with permission.

SENTENCE

Whoever does not carry the cross and follow Jesus cannot be his disciple.

COLLECT

O God, you invite the humble and the sinful to take to take their place in the festive assembly of the new covenant: teach your Church always to honour the presence of the Lord in the poor and the outcast, so that we may learn to recognise each other as brothers and sisters gathered together around your table. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

FIRST Reading

Jeremiah 2.4-13 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves? They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?” I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruits and its good things.

But when you entered you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?”

Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit. Therefore once

more I accuse you, says the Lord, and I accuse your children’s children. Cross to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has ever been such a thing. Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods?

But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit. Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

For the word of the Lord, Thanks be to God. Verses of the psalm are read alternately by a single reader and the congregation. A pause is observed at the colon for reflection. At Solemn High Mass, the choir sings the psalm.

PSALM 81 1

10 11 12 13

O sing joyfully to God our strength: shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt: open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

‘But my people would not listen to my voice: and Israel would have none of me.

‘So I left them to the stubbornness of their hearts: to walk according to their own designs.

‘If only my people would listen: if Israel would but walk in my ways,

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Mass Readings 14 ‘I would soon put down their enemies: and turn my hand against their adversaries.

15 ‘Those that hate the Lord would cringe before him: and their punishment would last for ever.

16 ‘But Israel I would feed with the finest wheat: and satisfy you with honey from the rocks.’

Second reading

Hebrews 13.1-8, 15-16 Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?” Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. For the word of the Lord, Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia.

Let your face shine on your servant, and teach me your laws.

Alleluia!

MASS READINGS OFFERTORY SENTENCE

MONDAYS 6.00pm

God of peace and love, may our offering bring you true worship and make us one with you.

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honour, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honour, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you O God. My soul is thirsting for the living God.

Communion MOtet Christian O sacrum convivium Meditation

Gospel

Luke 14.1, 7-14 The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ.

COMMUNION SENTENCE

Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

(60 Christus mins) sumitur; recolitur memoria passionis eius mens impletur gratia; O sacrum convivium in quo et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur. Alleluia.

O sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of his Passion is renewed, the mind filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us. Alleluia.

WEDNESDAYS Magnificat antiphon, second vespers, 12.15pm Corpus Christi

Healing Eucharist (40 mins)

Welcome to the Anglican Parish of

Christ ChurchCHURCH CHRIST St Laurence

ST LAURENCE

Railway Square, Sydney

WEEKDAY SERVICES 7.30am Morning Prayer (20 mins) 8.00am Eucharist (30 mins) 5.30pm Evening Prayer (20 mins) SUNDAY SERVICES

7.00am Morning Prayer 7.30am Eucharist 9.00am Eucharist with Children’s Ministry 10.30am Solemn High Mass 6.30pm Solemn Evensong

This is the Gospel of the Lord, Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

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CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney

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SUNDAY NOTICES Anglican Board of Mission Monthly Retiring Collection for September, October and November Myanmar: Doctorate Sponsorship Program Nant Hnin Hnin Aye (Snow) ABM is supporting a postgraduate scholarship at Trinity College in Melbourne for a theology student from Myanmar. In partnership with the Church in the Province of Myanmar, ABM is delighted that Nant Hnin Hnin Aye (Snow) will be the first recipient of the scholarship. Snow will study for a doctorate in New Testament studies, specifically looking at how Jesus redefined the social and cultural norms of his day, as described in Luke’s gospel. Given Myanmar’s particular political context, she will focus on the application of Jesus’ teachings to the reality of marginalised groups in Myanmar today. Snow is hoping to be a role model and set a trend for Anglican women theologians in Myanmar.

Snow grew up in Yangon City, and lives with her parents and brothers. Her family members joyfully serve different roles in the ministry there though it is not easy with political, social and financial challenges.

Snow works as a lecturer in the New Testament at the Holy Cross Theological College, serves as a member of different committees at the college, is the personal assistant to the Principal and is also a member of the Anglican Research Centre.

SUNDAY NOTICES

Parish Quiet Day We will be holding a day of rest and reflection at St Benedict’s Monastery, Arcadia on Saturday 8 October.

Morning tea will be provided - bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the gardens.

There will be further details closer to the day.

Anglicans Together Annual Dinner This year’s Anglicans Together Dinner is to be held on Friday 2 September from 7:00pm at the City Tattersall’s Club, 194 - 204 Pitt Street, Sydney. The Guest speaker will be Professor Marion Maddox of Macquarie University, who is a leading authority on the intersection of religion and politics in Australia. Her topic will be ‘The Past, Pleasures and Prospects of Liberal Christianity’. Cost: $65 pp ($60 conc). Payments (with response form) should be sent by 26 August to: Anglicans Together, Level 1 St James’ Hall, 169-171 Phillip Street, Sydney, 2000. Further details and response forms can be found at: www. anglicanstogether.org

At Belltower Books During renovations the bookshop in the hall will be closed. The West Door branch is well stocked with books, cards, wrapping paper, CDs and The Deacon’s Treasure and is open before and after the Masses and Evensong. The books reviewed in the latest Deacon’s Treasure by Father Robert Wheeler are available. Robert Louis Wilken: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Walker & Parry: Deep Church Rising Recovering the Roots of Christian Orthodoxy; Richard A Burridge: Four Gospels, One Jesus.

A Very Emerald Shakespeare Josie and the Emeralds (soprano Josie Ryan and viol consort led by Brooke Green) present a musical celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, featuring works

by Morley, Gibbons, Tallis, Byrd, Jenkins, Purcell, Schenck and Brooke Green. The concert is this Sunday at 3pm at CCSL; tickets are $30 and $20, available at the door.

She would like to study a doctorate degree in Australia to enhance her theological understanding to benefit her work, Holy Cross Theological College, and women in general. Snow is committed to being an example to other women in Myanmar to show them what they are capable of achieving. Women are only afforded the opportunity to study if an organisation or school offers to sponsor them. She would like to encourage younger women to prove that they are capable in ministry. Snow says she would like “to see 100% opportunity for women in educational area. The more educated women we have the new generation will build healthy community with positive approach.”

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CHRIST CHURCH ST LAURENCE Railway Square, Sydney

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PARISH DIRECTORY Church address Parish office address Parish postal address Rector

812 George St, Sydney L2, 812B George Street, Sydney PO Box 1324, Haymarket NSW 1240 office@ccsl.org.au Fr Daniel Dries fr.daniel@ccsl.org.au

www.ccsl.org.au P 02 9211 0560 F 02 9212 2449 M 0417 662 776

SENIOR ASSISTANT PRIEST STUDENT MINISTERS

Fr John Sanderson fr.john@ccsl.org.au Antony Weiss Antony.Weiss@student.moore.edu.au Ryan Austin-Eames ryan.austineames@gmail.com Fr Ron Silarsah fr.ron@ccsl.org.au Fr Michael Giffin Fr Eric Hampson Fr Ian Crooks Rebecca Mychael r.mychael@ccsl.org.au Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Brenda Hunter b.hunter@ccsl.org.au Anthony Miller a.miller@ccsl.org.au Peter Hanson p.hanson@ccsl.org.au Parish Hall, 505 Pitt St choir@ccsl.org.au Neil McEwan AM frscm n.mcewan@ccsl.org.au Peter Jewkes p.jewkes@ccsl.org.au Joshua Ryan j.ryan@ccsl.org.au Helen Hewson office@ccsl.org.au Editors tdt@ccsl.org.au

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